Quotes About Wisdom

Just be sure you talk to her, Jack. Ask her everything, while there's still time.

In the life of a man," wrote Marcus Aurelius, "his time is but a moment . . .

Imaginer les choses vaut mieux que se les rappeler », avait écrit Garp.

Life forces enough final decisions on us," Mrs. Oastler continued. "We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

There are times when I need to read the Thirty-seventh Psalm, over and over again. Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure: fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of people she had met.

Robertson Davies

Listen, Jaye. When a man of advancing years tells you something is true, either believe him, or nod politely. The last thing you want to do is shake his faith in his omniscience. – Varner Hilts

His younger brother looked to him for advice—wisdom—never realizing that older people were almost as uncertain of everything as Billy was, if not more.

But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!

Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn at no other.

Pop used to say he hated to take time from books to earn a living. Man's never lonely with a book in his pocket, he'd say. Books gives a man ten thousand friends. Some are smart, some are funny, some are just pleasant for passing the time, but they're all good.

But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!

Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their safety seems to be the first.

The wise and the good never form the majority of any large society and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted.... [All that wise and good men can do is] to persevere in doing their duty to their country and leave the consequences to him who made men only; neither elated by success, however great, nor discouraged by disappointments however frequent or mortifying.

There is probably no worse investment strategy than following the conventional wisdom with a time-lag, and that is precisely what many small investors do - often with the encouragement of their advisers.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. —1 Corinthians 13:12

Effective decision makers are distinguished not so much by the superior extent of their knowledge as by their being aware of its limitations.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Time, that aged nurse, rocked me to patience.

Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.